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The Common Platform scandal, and bringing a claim for wrongful imprisonment
Seen this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62722855 Summary:
It's that last bit that interests me - one of the things my mysterious vanishing solicitor had promised to do was get me compensation after I was unlawfully held in prison overnight when "there was an error in the bail documents and the release note got lost".
Of course, I don't have these docs, nor do I know how to get hold of them, and I can't afford another solicitor until I found how to get some money back from this one.
In the meantime, I'm wondering if I might have been caught up in this scandal, and how do I go about getting the compensation I was promised? (He indicated it was a standard/default £500 per night, but that one could often claim more).
An IT system is causing key information about court cases in England and Wales to change or disappear and is putting justice at risk, the BBC has been told.
Staff say warnings about alleged faults, describing it as "fundamentally flawed", have been ignored.
He told the BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme he correctly entered the results of a case in which a man was to be banned from driving only to discover later the result had changed.
"The results that appeared on Common Platform were not the results we imposed," he said.
Numerous other court staff also told the BBC of instances in which key information disappeared, including pleas entered and the case result.
File on 4 has also been given details of a case in which an individual was held in prison for days longer than they should have been, after a Common Platform-related fault.
Listen to File on 4: Justice on Trial at 20:00 on Tuesday, 6 September, on BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brqf
Staff say warnings about alleged faults, describing it as "fundamentally flawed", have been ignored.
He told the BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme he correctly entered the results of a case in which a man was to be banned from driving only to discover later the result had changed.
"The results that appeared on Common Platform were not the results we imposed," he said.
Numerous other court staff also told the BBC of instances in which key information disappeared, including pleas entered and the case result.
File on 4 has also been given details of a case in which an individual was held in prison for days longer than they should have been, after a Common Platform-related fault.
Listen to File on 4: Justice on Trial at 20:00 on Tuesday, 6 September, on BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brqf
Of course, I don't have these docs, nor do I know how to get hold of them, and I can't afford another solicitor until I found how to get some money back from this one.
In the meantime, I'm wondering if I might have been caught up in this scandal, and how do I go about getting the compensation I was promised? (He indicated it was a standard/default £500 per night, but that one could often claim more).
